Oda Oideyasu

Oda Oideyasu is a Japanese comedian. His real name is Yoshihiro Oda. He is a member of the Yoshimoto Kogyo Tokyo Head Office. He is the tsukkomi (term used in Japanese comedy) of the comedy duo "Oideyasukoga". His partner in the duo is Koga Ken. He has been choosen as a cultural tourism ambassador for…

Suzuki Masayuki

Suzuki Masayuki is a Japanese director born in Kamiishigami, Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. He currently serves as the General Director at the Production Center, Programming Bureau of Fuji Television (フジテレビジョン編成局). Suzuki graduated from the Nikkatsu Academy of Arts (日活芸術学院)…

Haruna Ai

Haruna Ai was born on in Osaka. She is a Japanese transgender talent, singer, actress, and businesswoman. She currently resides in Tokyo and is signed to Sands Entertainment. She's been active in the entertainment industry since 1995. She has one brother. She was aware that she was a woman since childhood.…

Kawakubo Takuji

Takuji Kawakubo (川久保 拓司 Kawakubo Takuji, born 17 December 1981, in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor and tarento. He is represented with Stardust Promotion. He graduated from Rikkyo University Faculty of Economics Faculty of Business.

Katayama Shinzo

Born in 1981 in Osaka prefecture, Japan, Katayama Shinzo worked as an assistant director for Nobuhiro Yamashita before becoming an assistant director for Bong Joon Ho on two of his projects: Tokyo! (2008) and Mother (2009). His debut feature, Siblings of the Cape (2019), won the Best Picture – Feature…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

So Geon

So Keun, formerly known as Ken or So Ken and currently known as So Geon, is a South Korean singer, dancer and member of NEXZ (ネクスジ / 넥스지). He was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, although his parents were both born and raised in Korea, making him a Zainichi Korean. He participated in the…

Uchida Sayuri

Uchida Sayuri, born Tachibana Sayuri (橘さゆり) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, is a former Japanese actress and child actress. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School (東京都立代々木高等学校). She was affiliated with Gekidan Tohai (劇団東俳), Horipro (ホリプロ),…

Koga Mitsuki

Mitsuki Koga is a Japanese actor who is known to be featured in films that involve much martial arts. He trained in Muay Thai, Karate and Boxing before starting his acting career. Best known for his portrayals as Kyosuke Akiba in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., Shinjiro Hayashida from Cromartie High - The Movie,…

Kinjo Yamato

Kinjo Yamato is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Naha, Okinawa, Japan, affiliated with Stay Luck (ステイラック). After graduating high school in 2002, he moved to Tokyo, where he worked part-time at izakayas and as a security guard. He made his acting debut in 2010, primarily in stage productions.…

Fragments of the Last Will

8.1

Set in a Siberian detention camp where more than 600,000 Japanese were unfairly detained in 1945 after World War II. (Source: News Yahoo) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Shuyojo kara Kita Isho" (収容所から来た遺書)…

The Diamond Sleeping in the Sea

8.3

A grand tale of love, friendship, and family spanning 70 years, set between the coal industry boom in Hashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, from 1955 and modern-day Tokyo. The story weaves together the bonds of family,…

The Last Man the Movie: First Love

Minami Hiromi, a blind FBI special agent, is assigned to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for an exchange program. Nicknamed the “Last Man,” he is regarded as the ultimate trump card who never fails to…

Road

An international crime thriller that follows two detectives, Kang Cheong Do and Inose, as they track a series of gruesome cross-border murders, characterized by twisted bodies and mysterious dying messages. The story…

Imado Jinja

“I want you to be with me forever. I'll always be there for you.” The Imado Shrine in Tokyo is known as a power spot for matchmaking and, according to the legend, the birthplace of the Maneki-neko (lucky cat) figurine.…

Monster

6.9

The film is about a woman who has lived two very different lives. As a girl, she was known as Tabuchi Kazuko and was often called a monster for her hideous facial features. After leaving her hometown for Tokyo, she…

Kare ga Boku ni Koishita Wake

6.3

Two teachers work together at the same high school. Hikawa Toru is a methodical but naive elite graduate from the University of Tokyo while Akagi Masashi is a physical education teacher who is kind-hearted but a little…

A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest

8.1

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and background artist for many famed works from Japan’s Studio Ghibli. Over…

Tabi Suru Sandwich

7.9

Kurumi and Kaede run a "traveling sandwich shop" that wanders around Japan and offers sandwiches made from local produce. (Source: TV Tokyo)

M: Ai Subeki Hito ga Ite

6.7

Set in the 1990s, high school student Ayu lives with her mother and grandmother in Fukuoka. She works as a model, but to pursue an acting career, she goes to Tokyo with her grandmother. While attending high school,…